Configure Windows Server 2016 Core with Powershell

In the past few weeks I’ve worked a lot with Windows Server 2016 Core, which as you might know, doesn’t have any GUI. You can do all the configurations (network configuration, domain join, rename computer, firewall settings, remote desktop settings) using sconfig or Powershell.

In this article, I’m going to walk you through the Powershell commands that you can use to configure your Windows Server Core.

Before starting any configuration, you might want to enable remote desktop on the server, instead of working on it via iDRAC (if it’s physical machine) or from the virtualization console.